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Garda Complaints Board’s Final Annual Report Highlights Flaws in Garda Ombudsman’s Leaseback Proposals
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- July 31, 2008
The ICCL has commented on the final annual report of the Garda Síochána Complaints Board, which was released today.The report details the Board’s operations in 2007 during which time it handed over the receipt of complaints to the newly-created G...
Information Pack for NGOs Attending the Third Examination of Ireland under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR)jULY 2008
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- July 25, 2008
Taking Liberties: The Human Rights Implications of the Balance in the Criminal Law Review Group
- Publication
- July 24, 2008
Taking Liberties outlines the human rights implications of last year’s report by the Balance in the Criminal Law Review Group (the Hogan Group). This report proposed a series of measures that would diminish the rights of accused people, without improving life for victims of crime. Already, several changes eroding the right to silence have been introduced on the basis of that Group’s proposals. Taking Liberties highlights the potential impact upon our human rights of the measures concerned, and cautions against their adoption
UN Human Rights Experts uphold Irish NGO concerns at Irish Human Rights Record
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- July 24, 2008
The Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) has welcomed the United Nations Human Rights Committee’s Concluding Observations on Ireland, released today following the State’s examination in Geneva last week. The Committee’s list of concerns cat...
Government’s Stoic Performance at UN Fails to Convince
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- July 15, 2008
The Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) has expressed deep disappointment at the Government’s stoic response to the questions put to it by the United Nations Human Rights Committee today.A number of the key concerns laid out in the NGO Shadow ...
Government Undergoes Geneva Grilling on Human Rights Record
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- July 14, 2008
The Attorney General, Mr. Paul Gallagher SC, is currently undergoing a grilling in Geneva by the UN’s top human rights experts.
The UN Human Rights Committee this morning heard a delegation of Irish non-governmental organisations (NGOs), outli...
Top Judge Spotlights UN role in Monitoring of Ireland’s Rights Record
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- July 13, 2008
One of Australia’s top judges will spotlight the crucial human rights monitoring role of the United Nations at an event timed to coincide with Ireland’s appearance before the United Nations Human Rights Committee tomorrow (14 July 2008).&...
ICCL, FLAC and IPRT Joint Shadow Report to the Third Periodic Report of Ireland under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (June 2008)
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- July 11, 2008
Leading NGOs contribute to UN examination of Ireland's human rights record.
ICCL and other human rights groups await judgment in landmark case against UK at European Court
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- July 1, 2008
This morning, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) is expecting the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights in a case brought jointly with Liberty and British-Irish Rights Watch. The case revolves around the interception over a seven y...
Calls for surveillance law reform after Strasbourg court victory
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- July 1, 2008
Leading human rights groups in Ireland and the United Kingdom have today called for urgent reform of surveillance laws, after securing a significant victory in their case before the European Court of Human Rights.The Irish Council for Civil Liberties...
